00:00I go and Curtis and I in South Carolina and Wiggy and Shime back at the radio station in beautiful
00:06state Brighton, Massachusetts. Shime, good morning. Good morning, Greg. How are you today?
00:11Fantastic. Thank you. That's good. I'm glad to hear that. So the Red Sox come home to start a
00:15series up with the Tampa Bay Rays tonight after sweeping the Detroit Tigers. We talked, what was
00:20it, two days ago now? Actually, was it yesterday? Because it was two days ago, the game, where
00:26Trevor Story got plunked. Maybe it was a turning point for the team as a whole. Maybe they could
00:32turn a corner, head in the right direction. They were able to cap it off with the sweep.
00:35But now you get to face a Tampa Bay Rays team who is in your division and is eight games
00:41better than you. So this will be more of a, I guess, small litmus test as to if this team
00:47has actually turned a corner. I don't believe they have. I think you're going to watch them
00:52get smacked around by the Rays and lose three out of four this weekend. But I would love
00:56to be surprised. I would love to be proven wrong in this instance because I would like
00:59to see them at least start to put some semblance of competent baseball together for a large portion
01:05of the season because we need it without the Celtics bruids around. Well, you should be
01:10getting Roman Anthony back maybe as early as this weekend. Like he is, he seems to be doing
01:16well. So, um, and that's not, not anything at all serious. So that's, that's, that's good
01:23news. Um, Wiggy has them. I believe we, what's the magic number when it comes to that last
01:29wildcard spot that you've been not, you're very, very excited about that number. Greg
01:34is, I want to say what do they need? 64 wins? No, they are right there now in the mix.
01:42They
01:42are one and a half back from actually the second and third wildcard spot. And if you look at the
01:51rest, but if you look at the rest of the American league, you know, the Yankees and Tampa Bay,
01:58they clearly are in your division. The other divisions are similar to you. When you look at
02:03Detroit was, I think they were first in the central. So you were able to beat them. So you're right
02:10in
02:10the mix where you can get one of those second or third wildcard spots, because we obviously know
02:16that the three winners of the division automatically will get a playoff berth. That's right. I, I, I,
02:22and I don't want to hear any Scooble talk because the Sox didn't have crochet. So it was even
02:27that's correct. I can't believe I'm saying this, like it matters, but like, can we find out what's
02:33going on with Rangers Suarez? He's not on the IL, but like, is he going to pitch in this series?
02:38It looks
02:39like they're going with Jake Bennett and then Connelly early. But again, I'm like, I can't
02:43believe I'm talking. I'm saying this aloud. Like it matters for this. I know it does. He has the
02:48sunny gray hamstring. So hopefully he'll only miss a couple of starts. And because he was pitching
02:52well, I saw Portnoy tweet, like, wait, are the Red Sox are good again? I'm like, come on people.
02:57Like whatever. I mean, they are tonight. We deserve to get hurt again. If we start talking this way,
03:03we should, we should absolutely. You just heard we say it. They're right there.
03:07They are right there. But okay. Can I ask you a question? I'm not being asked. I love your
03:13optimism, but they're not right there. Can you tell me how many teams in the American
03:16league are more than four games out of a playoff spot right now? No. Can you tell us?
03:22No, I'm saying there's, I don't think there are any. Oh, I thought you're saying that as
03:26like a prompting because you had to take. So what is there? So there is no team in the
03:31American league that is four games over a four games out of a playoff spot. No, it looks
03:35like the, the last two are the angels and Astros. Yes. Three games out. Right. Oh,
03:40they're in it. Three games out. Like if everybody's in it, nobody's in it. But if
03:45you're in it, then that means you're not out of it. But that's, but the whole,
03:48that's the point is what the, so we're not, how are they standing tall? If
03:52everybody's the same height? Because that's the thing. If we're all in fat camp,
03:56guess what? We're all there. There's a difference. Exactly. Excuse me? That's the
04:02point. The point that I'm making is they're still in the mix. They're not dead. We thought
04:06they were dead. If they were dead, they would be five, six games out of a wild card spot.
04:11The fact that the rest of the league might, yeah, granted, the rest of the league is all
04:15in it, but you were right in the mix. The, the Astros and Angels did three games out. You're
04:21a game and a half. So you're in the mix. Yes. You're in the mix with the rest of the
04:26league.
04:26That's my point. Right. So they're not dead, but then the whole league is not dead. That's
04:30the point I'm making. Amen.
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